General Prison Information

Contact Information

Below you have the street address and mailing address for Manchester Federal Correctional Institution. Use the mailing address if you are going to send a letter or package to a prisoner there, and make sure to use the physical address if you need to know the actual location of Manchester Federal Correctional Institution.

Mailing Address

Be sure to also read the Inmate Mail and Package Procedures information on this page if you are going to send a package or letter to a prisoner to make sure that you correctly address the package or letter, and do the right steps for sending a package or letter. If you do not use the correct steps, the package or letter could not get delivered.

Street Address / Prison Location

Use the street address if you plan to visit a prisoner. Make sure to read the Inmate Visitation Procedures and Inmate Visitation Schedule information below if you are going to try to visit an inmate at Manchester Federal Correctional Institution.

Phone Number

Federal inmates can’t take phone calls, so you won’t be able to call your inmate, however, there are times when it may be helpful to know the telephone number to the facility.

(606) 598-1900

Fax Number

Inmates don’t have faxes, so you won’t be able to send a fax to your inmate, but there are cases when it might be helpful to know the fax number to Manchester Federal Correctional Institution.

(606) 599-4115

Email Address

The email address below is the primary email for the prison. You cannot reach inmates at this address. If you need to email a prisoner, read the Inmate Email section below.

MAN/PUBLICINFORMATION@BOP.GOV

Inmate and Staff Statistics

Total Inmates: 1,188

Inmate Email

To email a letter to a prisoner you must follow an exact process to ensure that the email message gets to the prisoner.

TRULINCS – Trust Fund Limited Inmate Computer System

Prisoners are allowed to email letters only to persons that are on their approved contact list. An prisoner has to make a request to recieve and send email messages with a person by placing that person into their contact list.

All email correspondence is subject to monitoring. prisoners give their consent to being monitored when they join the program. Family and friends of the inmate must consent to email monitoring when they agree to corresponding with the prisoner and are reminded about this each and every time that they get email correspondence from the prisoner.

When a person is added to an inmates contact list that person will get an email message which sends them to the CorrLink system at www.corrlink.com.CorrLink Inmate Email System

Email messages must not endanger the public or the security, safety, or operation of the prison. In addition, email should not be larger than 13,000 characters. Email messages that are not consistent with these rules will not get sent.

Inmate Internet Access

Federal prisoners are not permitted to access the internet.

Inmate Mail and Package Procedures

There are special procedures that you must follow when sending a letter or package to a inmate. If you do not then the letters and packages might not make it there.

Before you send a package or letter, you should read the sections below:

Mail Monitoring

Manchester Federal Correctional Institution officials do open and inspect and read all received general mail and packages. Received general packages and mail is read as frequently as deemed necessary to ensure security or watch a problem having to do with inmates.

How to Address a Letter to an Inmate

Below is the correct format for how you must address a package or letter to a prisoner at Manchester Federal Prison:

The deposit have to be in a money order that is made out to the prisoner’s full committed name and complete eight-digit register number. You should use a U.S. Postal Service money order, since all non-postal money orders processed through the National Lockbox will be placed on a 15-day hold, and in this time the prisoner will not get the money. The Bureau of Prisons will return to the sender funds that don’t have valid prisoner info but only if the envelope it was sent it has a return address. Checks and cash will not be accepted so do not send checks or cash.

Via Western Union Quick Collect Program: Prisoner’s friends and family are also able to send prisoners money with Western Union’s Quick Collect Program. Money sent to a prisoner with the Western Union Quick Collect Program can be sent by one of these methods:

At Western Union location using cash. In order to locate the closest agent, you can call 1-800-325-6000 or visit www.westernunion.com.

On the phone with a credit/debit card: Call 1-800-634-3422 and select phone promt option 2.

On the web with a credit/debit card: Go to www.westernunion.com and choose “Quick Collect.”

For the Western Union Quick Collect transaction, this info must be included:

Correct Inmate Eight-Digit Register Number (entered with no spaces or dashes) followed immediately by Inmate’s Last Name

Committed Inmate Full Name entered on Attention Line

Code City: FBOP, DC

If the wrong register number and/or name are used and accepted and sent to the wrong prisoner, funds might not get returned to you.

Inmate Locator

Prisoners are frequently transported to different correctional facilities around the nation, so you might need to find where an inmate is located using the inmate locator. Click on the link here to locate an inmate.Inmate Search

Inmate Visitation Schedule

Visiting hours are from 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, as well as every federally recognized holiday.

Inmate Visitor Procedures

Every federal prison has its own rules for visitation and these rules get changed frequently. The information below could be different by the time you are reading this, so be sure to also go to the prison’s official website to get the latest rules for visitation.

Visitation Sign-In and Check-In

The entrance guard will make sure each visitor signs the prison visitors log before they enter the visitation area and upon leaving.

Identification Required

Picture id of all visitors is required. Acceptable forms of id are Driver’s License and Social Security Card; but, a state issued photo ID is OK.

For all of the things shown below, check out the actual prison website as this info is changed often:

Visitation Rules

Visitation Dress Code

Things You Can and Cannot Take to Visitation

Special Rules For Childred, Special Visits, Pastoral or Attorney Visits

Website

Have you ever been a prisoner in Manchester Federal Correctional Institution? Do you have a family member or friend that spent time there? Have you ever been to visit a prisoner at Manchester Federal Correctional Institution?

If so, then you should tell us about it. Tell us about your experience so that other people can find out what to expect.

Things you can put in your comment:

Prison conditions

Prison layout and facility

Guards and staff

Food and commissary

Visitation

Inmates

Safety

Gang activity

Inmate programs and activities

If you are currently an inmate at this facility, leave your address if you want people to be able to mail you.

Comments

Mt husband is being transferred to the Manchester camp. He has asked me to see if I can get hold of a commissary list for him. I was wondering if you could assist me with his request. He is coming out of Beaumont Low, if you need to use their list as a comparison???
Thank-you,
Corina